April 16, 2007 – 01:11 pm
From Thomas Friedman’s, eleven-page manifesto, The Power of Green: “A new green ideology, properly defined, has the power to mobilize liberals and conservatives, evangelicals and atheists, big business and environmentalists around an agenda that can both pull us together and propel us forward.” It’s a long ass article to read on the Web, I know, [...]
From City in Florida Fires Official Who Planned To Change Sex: “The longtime city manager here was fired early Saturday, one month after he disclosed his plans to seek a sex change. The City Commission voted 5 to 2 to dismiss the man, Steven B. Stanton, after a six-hour hearing in which he and [...]
March 21, 2007 – 02:32 pm
From Why I Was Fired: “With this week’s release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters. Of course, as one of the eight, I’ve felt this way for some time.”
January 16, 2007 – 03:57 pm
The President of India (really, seriously, no shit!) has asked a question over on Yahoo! Answers. He wants to know, “What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?” I like this guy’s style.
October 4, 2006 – 02:05 pm
I have a question for you. How many of you actually care about the Foley thing that is on the front page of every newspaper? I mean, sure, yeah, if the guy’s sexually harassing someone (regardless of that someone’s age and/or gender), then he should be gone. And yeah, okay, if the G.O.P.’s party leaders [...]
September 10, 2006 – 01:04 pm
In Academic Freedom in Iran and America, Robert Jensen, a professor of journalism at University of Texas at Austin, writes, “It’s interesting that [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad justified his desire to deal with dangerous professors because of the university officials’ ‘tendency to introduce politics into academic affairs.’ The phrase is reminiscent of a common complaint aimed [...]
Most of you know that I’ve spent some time reading the books of the famous cognitive linguist, George Lakoff, and that he is all about the metaphors we use to talk about (and think about) our experiences. You may also know that he runs the Rockridge Institute, a “non-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening [...]
The Red State/Blue State breakdown, using the most recent polling numbers, reveals that our nation has the blues.
Le Monde has published the letter that Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wrote to American President, George W. Bush. Ahmadinejad begins, “For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena…These have prompted me to discuss some of the contradictions and questions, in the hopes that [...]
April 17, 2006 – 11:56 am
An editorial in the Brattleboro Reformer says that, while it is rare in Vermont politics for any candidate for statewide office to have to buy their volunteers, that hasn’t stopped the Senate candidate for the Republican party from offering $3,000 and a laptop computer to students who “volunteer” for his campaign this summer. If he [...]
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